Recently on view at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in in New York City were the photographs of artist Hannah Starkey. The artist’s photographs are created using actors shot on site within select locations. She reconstructs scenes from everyday life, investigating women engaged in routines of shopping, sitting in cafes, or simply conversing. The photographs reflect a detachment from emotions and a surge into inner contemplation as[…..]
Collette Blanchard Gallery, a relatively new space on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, recently opened an exhibition of new photographic prints by Los Angeles-based artist Sean Higgins. The exhibition, titled Difficulties with Interplanetary Travel, features eleven digitally altered images of different terrain, some celestial and some worldly, all of which construct a new unidentifiable reality. All Each image begins as documentation of an actual[…..]
Ofer Wolberger‘s solo exhibition, (Life With) Maggie, is currently on view at Michael Hoppen Contemporary in London. The photographs on view depict Maggie–a fictional character with a a rosy-cheeked, stale-smiled, plastic-masked face and a wardrobe that would make any fan of vintage swoon–posing stiffly at various locations around the world. Like a retro poster child for the Independent Woman, Maggie is traipsing the globe in[…..]
Currently in its last week on view at Catherine Clark Gallery is a solo show of work by Montreal-based photographers and brothers Carlos and Jason Sanchez. The exhibition marks the brothers’ second at the San Francisco gallery, and displays a survey of their work over the past seven years, since their collaboration began. The twelve large-scale photographs on view depict scenes that have been exhaustively[…..]
Photographer, Lori Nix, is currently presenting new work from her ongoing series The City, in a three person exhibition at G. Gibson Gallery in Seattle. The exhibition, titled View Master, presents her work, along with Grace Weston and Jonah Samson. All of the artists in the exhibition make use of intricately fabricated, three dimensional sets to construct an entirely new reality. In the spare bedroom[…..]
Currently on view at Marvelli Gallery in New York City is the exhibition Palomar: Experimental Photography. The exhibition contains photographic works by 6 artists including, Phil Chang, Talia Chetrit, Nancy de Holl, Tamar Halpern, Mariah Robertson, and Asha Schechter. While the exhibition is incredibly diverse in the varying techniques, approaches, sizes and formats employed by each artist, the work is all united by a soft-spoken[…..]
The Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh is currently showing, Buried, a solo exhibition featuring new and recent video and photographic work by artist Willie Doherty in conjunction with the release of a new publication by the same name. Doherty, who was born and raised in Derry, Northern Ireland, addresses his homeland’s struggle to come to terms with its haunting past of violence and loss. His work[…..]
